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ranjan

25th of March 2005 (Fri), 10:35

I installed EE1.2.2 at http://ranjan.siteburg.com

I am testing EE on this free server & I created a mysql data base & I was given a database name & database password, which I edited in connect.php accordingly.

This server requires following:
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Using PHP4

You can use PHP immediately after registration.

PHP directives are processed in files with *.php extension. If you want your site to start with index.php, upload it to the server and delete index.html, created during registration.

Store your PHP scripts in the "WWW" folder. Folders with PHP scripts should have "755" ("drwxr-xr-x") access rights, and PHP scripts -- "644" ("-rw-r--r--").
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So I added all the files in WWW folder as per the requirement.

As per the install guide now I am opening the following address in IE http://ranjan.siteburg.com/WWW/setup.php for installing but I am getting the Error 404: There is no such page on our server

Install guide says to check the password which I have edited correctly...................what else could be the problem.

Can somebody check this for as I have no understanding as to what is going wrong.

My edited Password details

$servername = "http://ranjan.siteburg.com";
$databasename = "ranjan1";
$username = "XXXXXXXXXx";
$password = "XXXXXXXXx";

UncleDoug

25th of March 2005 (Fri), 14:45

server name should probably be "localhost" for one...

-Doug

Pekka

25th of March 2005 (Fri), 18:13

I you go to http://ranjan.siteburg.com/WWW/ it also says the there is no such page (index page). This would suggest that WWW is not your www home folder.

(EDITED): You should use http://ranjan.siteburg.com/setup.php
But your database connect is not correct yet as you see in http://ranjan.siteburg.com/add/connect.php

BTW: I can't support 1.22 any more because most of its code is very old, if you would like a better working version install 1.5RC4 from http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=29266 and http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=30778

ranjan

26th of March 2005 (Sat), 06:24

This would suggest that WWW is not your www home folder

The index.html page is there inside /WWW but you are correct that it does not show.
http://ranjan.siteburg.com/index.html when this link is clicked that page from WWW directory is displayed.

Taking you suggestion I have deleted the old version & now going to load 1.5.

Will get back to the forum if any problems.

Thanks.

ranjan

26th of March 2005 (Sat), 09:28

Ok I give up due to lack of basic understanding, I have installed EE 1.5 but cant get it to work even the the 1st step of checking the ftp server setup.

Can someone do this for me, I need help to test drive EE which I want to use for an upcomming event. I can give you my server password & details.

EE seems to quite feature packed but would like to have it more user (dumb like me) friendly. A better idea would be to invite some hosting companies to install it as a trial for a month then the user can pay for yearly basis, else the gallery can be taken off or no further updating possible.

Ranjan

Pekka

26th of March 2005 (Sat), 09:32

You can PM me the server info and details, I can see if it can be installed. I do not know how siteburg.com is set up so only way is to go step by step and see what happens.

ranjan

26th of March 2005 (Sat), 10:57

Pekka

I sent you the details.
Thanks

Pekka

26th of March 2005 (Sat), 15:31

Ranjan,

I got your PM and went to the server. It has some severe flaws:

- can't run big scripts there (I had to split installer to three smaller scripts to make it run).
- Gzip html output compression blanked the pages, I needed to remove them all from source to get pages display. This is most likely due the forced ad on top.
- ftp is firewalled from localhost. This means that I can e.g. run EE ftp tests from Finland just fine, but they will fail when run on your server - it seems that all file transfers (passive and non-passive) are forbidden from localhost (PHP and Apache are on localhost).
- GD has a flakey JPEG library which fails on some JPEGs.
- Imagemagick works, sometimes. I could make IM work with test thumb, but it fails with larger sizes and sharpening, apparently a buggy installation which has a memory leak (seen that symptom before). It also suffers from buggy JPEG library which means it won't open e.g. the basic test image, but will open one I uploaded.
- Occasional random page halts and old pages displayed instead of current one. These symptoms suggest they use a PHP accelerator (bad one) and resource limiters which just halt the execution with certain overall server load (Virtuozzo platform has those for example).
- htaccess or any other method of finetuning php is forbidden in server. This means e.g. that maximum script execution time is 30 seconds.

Bottom line: Basically I got the EE installed, but as ftp does not work you can only use the manual upload method, or that you use some other ftp/www server for images. If you plan to use EE for some business use as you said, I would suggest that you forget that free server and find something more suitable.

Sorry that I could not do more...

ranjan

26th of March 2005 (Sat), 22:04

Thanks Pekka for your efforts.

I will check it & see if I can use it as per my requirements. I am doing a shoot 2000 Kms from home location & I suggested the client to have images from location uploaded to EE gallery, thats why I 1st opted for free server space as a demo to the client, so I can see & show them the admin panel.

Good to see it finally installed, what do you think of asking the hosting companies to partner with EE.

Ranjan

ranjan

26th of March 2005 (Sat), 23:27

Pekka

27th of March 2005 (Sun), 06:51

After I created a new exhibition"Ranjan" gave a public permission & uploaded images my thumbnails are not created.
http://ranjan.siteburg.com/GALLERY/index.php?lang=eng&pass=public
here it says 5 latest images in both galleries but if you go to the gallery it says no images are there.

Seems the step no 6 is not uploading the selected images in the thumnail folder.

While I created the new gallery it displayed

If there is no directory yet, EE will create
it at first upload to this exhibition same for the thumb & microthumbs

What am I missing?

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My understanding is that using "upload to database" loads the files to /gallery/Hiddeninput/UPLOAD' folder

I can see the files in 2nd step window & do the need full upto step 5.

Step 6 should copy these files to folder /WWW/GALLERY/photos/normal This is not being done when I click "upload" instaed I see a blank page (is the page being blocked) & I copied the files manually using seprate FTP program yet I dont see any files or thumbs.

I have checked that I gave a pass as Public while creating the gallery.

Ranjan

Ok, there is some basic info I have not made clear:

When ftp is not working EE will not do thumbnails, sizes or create directories. Without working ftp you will need to resort to "old way", which is manual photo input.

Manual input is made this way:

1. you send your photos to EE's "input/UPLOAD" folder (using ftp or EE's "STEP 1 : send photos to server upload folder" on upload page). These photos are needed for two things: filename reference and EXIF/XMP/IPTC reading. They can be very very small, only thing that matters that they are there.
2. Go to UPLOAD editor.
3. Select the photos you want to add to database - "STEP 2 : select photos from server upload folder".
4. Select paths the photos go to - "STEP 3 : select sizes and where they are going".
4. Select target exhibition: - "STEP 4 : select target exhibition".
5. Tick on "SPECIAL: no ftp or resize automation (manual file upload)".
6. Click "UPLOAD" button once.

What above does: it adds the selected photos to EE database, assigns them to correct paths and reports it all to you on report area on bottom of upload page. It does not resize, move or create photo files. That is what you must do manually: upload resized photos (thumbs, microthumbs and various sizes needed) to respective folders (which you need to create if they are not already there), using you own ftp client or control panel upload tool.

Example report could be like:

Microthumb path:
/public_html/gallery/newgallery/microthumb/

Thumb path:
/public_html/gallery/newgallery/thumb/

Size path(s):
/public_html/gallery/newphotos/original/
/public_html/gallery/newphotos/big/
/public_html/gallery/newphotos/small/

FILES INSERTED:
HV294324903.jpg
HV8O3wsd.jpg
testsfdjkfdlds.jpg

MANUAL UPLOAD FINISHED.
Upload command performed without ftp or resize actions. You will need to upload files to respective paths manually.

So, in this case you task is to resize files HV294324903.jpg, HV8O3wsd.jpg, testsfdjkfdlds.jpg to big, small, thumb and microthumb sizes and upload them to folders mentioned above.

ranjan

27th of March 2005 (Sun), 09:09

I have done manual ftp as suggested & I can see thumbs & micro thumbs but I can see images.
I did the following step 1 to 6 of upload new images as you suggested.

Then manually uploaded the main images to folder /WWW/GALLERY/photos/normal
Then manually uploaded the thumb images to folder /WWW/GALLERY/photos/thumb
Then manually uploaded the microthumb images to folder /WWW/GALLERY/photos/microthumb

all the images are there & now on the main page it shows 14 images but microthumbs are broken but clicking on them shows the image.

Something is still wrong.
If it is all happening due to free webspace, what all should I check from web hosting services as minimum requirements for running EE 1.5 or future versions.

Ranjan

Pekka

27th of March 2005 (Sun), 10:19

The filenames much match exactly. The filename you see in photo editor is the one you should use. You have IMG_5607.jpg but your thumb is IMG_5607_thm.jpg. That is why it won't display.

ranjan

27th of March 2005 (Sun), 10:45

Oh thanks, silly mistake of renaming thumbs as _thm for sorting purpose, still it does not show, surely some problem at my end but cannot find out.

Pekka

27th of March 2005 (Sun), 11:13

The filenames are case sensitive.... in photo editor dropdown list you have the exact filenames that are stored currently in database for each image.

ranjan

28th of March 2005 (Mon), 10:42

NO the file name which I loaded have some additional name pre added to them & thats causing the problem.

Img_5878 shows as E48 Img 5878, dont know why it is happening, but I am manually setting the path to each thumnail in the photo editor window.
Hope this will sort out the problems.